TBI makes a splash! Visiting Lake Turkana.
It can get pretty hot here in Turkana, so this weekend the students made two separate trips to the massive East African rift lake [...]
Where Problems Meet Solutions
Classroom Relocation Project A new development arises: The day after Alan and Saffron moved the students out of their old classroom and into the [...]
Into the field! Fossil hunting in our own backyard
After a few classes, lectures, and labs, it was time for the students to try out their new skills in the field! TBI Turkwel [...]
From Mpala to Turkwel, it’s heating up!
Welcome to our second blog post! The students have now arrived at Turkwel, the Turkana Basin Institute Research facility on the West side of [...]
Origins Summer Program has begun!
Karibu! Welcome to Kenya! Beautiful Wildebeest Ecolodge outside of Nairobi, where the students stayed their first night in Kenya (photo credit: Evelyn Glaze) [...]
Getting Down and Dirty
A Tour of TBI Last week, students took a tour of the Turkana Basin Institute for the opportunity to see what resources TBI uses, [...]
A New Home, A New Experience in Ileret
MPALA TO TBI After entering the TBI plane, the students flew north towards Ileret to reach the TBI facility. On the way, they saw [...]
Global Innovation Field School 2017 begins!
As most people are enjoying the beach and sunshine in the US, some Stony Brook students took a long shot and came to the [...]
Congratulations to Spring Field School Graduates!
It is finally the end of the Archaeology module and our field school students have learned a lot about stone tools. Now it is [...]
Our Day in Lodwar
A major aspect and problem of archaeological work is the preservation of sites. Archaeological sites are prone to natural forces such as weathering along [...]
Some serious digging in the dirt
As the field school comes close to its end, students finally had the opportunity to experience how different pieces of information can be put [...]
The grandeur of Lothagam
The TBI Turkwel campus has one of the best outlook points around the area: the roof of the research labs. From there, several landmarks [...]
The Nariokotome camping trip
Now that our field school students have gained a good understanding of how early stone tools are made, it is time to find some [...]
Embracing Our Ancestry
The students have arrived at Turkwel for their final adventure of The Origins Field School, the Archaeology module. For this, we are joined by [...]
Our Murky Origins
As curious beings, we often question where we came from and how we came to be. We used to think of our evolutionary tree [...]
Visiting hominin ancestors
It is now the second week of the human evolution module of the Origins Field School and our dedicated students are ready for a [...]
World Water Day 2017
When Richard Leakey invited Sarah, Duchess of York, to visit the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya their plan was to talk about humankind's [...]
A family tree of Caminalcules
Families are considered functional units of a typical human society. Depending on the geographic and cultural origin, families can come in different shapes and [...]
The Beginning of Our Origins
The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived, the human evolution module. For the module, Dr. Matthew Borths from the University of [...]
The Power of Paleontology
As paleontology neared the end, students were able to demonstrate what they learned throughout the course by designing research experiments. These projects focused on [...]